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January 2010 Entries

Another great opportunity to ask Microsoft engineers your technical questions is coming up on Tuesday, January 26th. These chats are your opportunity to get advice and answers from the engineers at Microsoft. You may want to review Transcript Archive to get an idea about what kind of topics are discussed. Title: Windows CE Live Chat! When: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time Add to Calendar Description: Do you have tough technical questions regarding Windows CE or Windows Mobile ......

A reader recently asked me the following: “What do you need to do exactly to change the legacy namespace of an existing driver? I have a serial port driver (for an expansion card with 4 serial ports) which works and uses the COM-prefix, but I want to change the COM-prefix to something else, so that it's easier to distinguish between onboard COM-ports and the ports on the expansion card... I've changed the prefix in the registry and also in the .def-files. But when I try to compile it, I get LNK2001-errors ......